[kwlug-disc] Videoconference testing -- please help

[Paul Nijjar]

Thanks to Jon, Ron Singh, and Mikalai for helping me test things out. 

I think we determined that Jitsi and Nextcloud talk are not ideal. Ron
was correct that the application takes a LOT of CPU on the client
side. On my old netbook I could not get any audio. Screen sharing did
not really work. Ron was also unable to hear anything we were saying,
even though he had his microphone and webcam shared.

We also tried the demo server of BigBlueButton and that worked much
better for us. Audio worked for everybody. BBB deals with PDFs really
well. However, screen sharing did not work (which may have been
resource limitations on the server).

The next steps are to see whether I can make an in-house BBB server
work, and test it on that. Otherwise we may just try the demo BBB
server for our meeting.

There are a couple of other options, but I am not sure how much
effort I will put into them. I think Rocket.Chat might be using Jitsi
as well. There is an Apache project called OpenMeetings which might be
worth a shot, but it is ugly. (My bandwidth for dealing with this is
also somewhat limited.) 

- Paul

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:23:56PM -0400, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> Ronald set up a NextCloud instance with its "talk" application (which
> I think is just Jitsi).
> 
> We probably cannot do stress testing today but we can do some
> usability testing. Can you help? If a few people can join the call
> tonight that would be nice. We can also do something tomorrow evening.
> 
> The conference call is:
> https://nextcloud.kwvoip.ca/index.php/call/srm7bfe9
> 
> The password is: clusterssh 
> 
> Just join. Maybe I will hear you and reply. 
> 
> - Paul
> 
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